On the occasion of the centenary of the birth of Francesco Somaini, Galleria Open Art in Prato presents, from 26 September 2026 to 7 January 2027, the retrospective exhibition Materia “lucida e ordinata”: Francesco Somaini nel centenario, included in the calendar of initiatives dedicated, throughout the year, to celebrating the figure and central role of the artist in the history of twentieth-century Italian art.
Through more than twenty selected sculptures, some of them large-format, accompanied by a nucleus of drawings, the exhibition route traces the entire creative journey of one of the leading Italian sculptors of the 20th century, from the early 1950s to the very last works at the dawn of the new millennium.
Accompanied by a catalogue edited by Mauro Stefanini with a critical text by Beatrice Buscaroli (Masso delle Fate, Signa 2026), the exhibition will be inaugurated on Saturday 26 September at 17:30.